The Kennan Diaries
The Kennan Diaries reveals the personal life and the political, philosophical, and spiritual concerns of America’s most noted diplomat and foreign policy strategist, George F. Kennan. Edited by historian Frank Costigliola, The Kennan Diaries is a landmark work of profound intellectual and emotional power.
Overview
Washington History Seminar
Historical Perspectives on International and National Affairs
The Kennan Diaries
Frank Costigliola
University of Connecticut
The Kennan Diaries reveals the personal life and the political, philosophical, and spiritual concerns of America’s most noted diplomat and foreign policy strategist, George F. Kennan. Edited by historian Frank Costigliola, The Kennan Diaries is a landmark work of profound intellectual and emotional power. These never-before-published diaries offer a narrative of Kennan’s life in his own intimate and unflinching words and, through him, the arc of world events in the twentieth century.
Frank Costigliola, professor of history at the University of Connecticut, is the author of Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War (Princeton, 2012) and The Kennan Diaries (W.W. Norton & Company, 2014). He has received fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, and the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute. In 2009 he served as president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
Friday October 3, 2014
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor Board Room
Ronald Reagan Building, Federal Triangle Metro Stop
The organizers of the Washington History Seminar would like to thank the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute for their cooperation and support of this week’s seminar.
Speaker
Frank Costigliola
Frank Costigliola is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at the University of Connecticut.
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History and Public Policy Program
The History and Public Policy Program makes public the primary source record of 20th and 21st century international history from repositories around the world, facilitates scholarship based on those records, and uses these materials to provide context for classroom, public, and policy debates on global affairs. Read more
Kennan Institute
The Kennan Institute is the premier US center for advanced research on Eurasia and the oldest and largest regional program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The Kennan Institute is committed to improving American understanding of Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, the South Caucasus, and the surrounding region though research and exchange. Read more
Cold War International History Project
The Cold War International History Project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War. Through an award winning Digital Archive, the Project allows scholars, journalists, students, and the interested public to reassess the Cold War and its many contemporary legacies. It is part of the Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program. Read more
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